My website has a problem in IE 5.5. The adsense skyscraper ad unit under my site's menu on the right keeps displaying under the article content at the bottom of the page, instead of directly under the menu, where it should be. Here is the link to my site again: My Site And here is a link to a screen shot of the problem in IE 5.5: Screen Shot I know this is a simple css problem but I'm not sure what to change to fix it. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you..
I would not bother with it. The amount of people using IE5.5 is so small, and dropping, that I'd just ignore this problem.
So you're saying that if the display problem seems simple, it probably can't be fixed in 5.5? The thing is, all I did was increase the width of my menu (to make it the same width as the adsense ads) and my site started to have this 5.5 problem...it didn't have it BEFORE I changed the width of the menu...which makes me think there is a simple fix for this...
Sorry I meant if the display problem is trivial in IE 5.5 and you're having difficulties fixing it then it wouldn't cause much harm just letting it go. Although if it is easily fixed I guess thats another few percent of the population who'll see your site exactly how you want it.
Is spending hours to fix something for nothing? Less than 1% of computers run IE5.5. Mine runs 7.0! Rob
I'm not sure how many people use IE5.5 now. Plus I also think that if you try and fix it for IE5.5, you might start getting errors on other currently being used browsers as new browsers render style sheets differently than what IE5.5 had. Bye
As others have said, if the display issue is a trivial cosmetic annoyance (e.g. left align when you really wanted centered), I would just ignore it at this point in time. The honest truth is we really need to convince people to move away from IE5.5 just like we had to convince people to move away from Netscape 4.7 four years ago. Really the only reason to still be using IE5.5 is because one is running Windows 95 as all other more recent versions of Windows support IE6. It is just plainly stupid to be connecting to the Internet via Windows 95. Even Firefox 3.0 will no longer support Win95. If, however, you really want to fix your IE5.5 issues you can always use the following work around and stick your IE5.5 only style instructions in a special stylesheet that only IE5.5 sees: <!--[if IE 5]><LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/IE5.css" media="all"><![endif]--> Code (markup):
I'm starting to agree with you and the others in this thread. Plus, as JEET said, I could create more problems. Thanks guys!